547158 – net-libs/gnutls slotting

Bug 547158 - net-libs/gnutls slotting

Summary: net-libs/gnutls slotting

Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	Normal normal (vote)
Assignee:	Crypto team [DISABLED]

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Reported:	2015-04-20 05:45 UTC by Silvio
Modified:	2015-04-30 17:38 UTC (History)
CC List:	2 users (show)

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Description Silvio 2015-04-20 05:45:52 UTC

is it possibile to slot  net-libs/gnutls 2 and 3?

net-analyzer/openvas-libraries
needs 
=net-libs/gnutls-2*

net-ftp/filezilla
needs:
>=net-libs/gnutls-3*

so it is impossibile to install them together! (It ahs been so for many months).


Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Kristian Fiskerstrand (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2015-04-20 21:28:42 UTC

In my view GnuTLS 2 is no longer maintained upstream, including no security fixes, so we should really try to get away from it totally, not encourage it, see bug 421391 for the tracker for it

Comment 2 Silvio 2015-04-22 21:46:51 UTC

But for openvas (package openvas-libraries) it is necessary.
So you have to mask openvas too ...

Comment 3 Alon Bar-Lev (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2015-04-22 22:16:23 UTC

(In reply to Silvio from comment #2)
> But for openvas (package openvas-libraries) it is necessary.
> So you have to mask openvas too ...

for one package that claim to work using gnutls-3 it is not worth the effort of slotting. better help this package being fixed, and remove unsupported gnutls-2 from tree.